bum bag

noun

variants or less commonly bumbag

ˈbəm-ˌbag

plural bum bags also bumbags

British

: fanny pack

Modern Middle England … is a place where … respectable old-age pensioners wear baseball caps and bum bags to go shopping, where trams are coming back and high-rise housing is going out.

—Rosemary Hill, The Times Literary Supplement, 5 Nov. 1999

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

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